Award-winning author and long-time friend Miles Harvey joins Carl to talk about some of their shared writing experiences as well as Miles’ work in journalism, fiction and nonfiction. They talk about pursuing a writing MFA into your 50s, and Miles talks about educating writers both young and old and how that experience gives him hope. If you’re a fan of the written word, we hope you’ll listen.
Writing for Miles
Featured Speaker:
Miles Harvey, Writer, Chair Department of English DePaul University
Miles Harvey won the 2023 Journal Non/Fiction Prize for The Registry of Forgotten Objects, a collection of short stories. He is the author of three books of nonfiction, The King of Confidence, Painter in a Savage Land and The Island of Lost Maps, a national and international bestseller. He teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he chairs the Department of English and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher.